So last week, I updated my Debian testing, and one of my two monitors disappeared from Gnome Control Center. Turns out, both are connected via DisplayPort (using a docking station), and that - for some reason - caused confusion. Both monitors are exactly the same, so it is easy to confuse the two. Managed to make them work with a bunch of 「xrandr」 magic. Currently awaiting a HDMI cable, to resolve the suspected conflict for good.

Yes, Electron is big and huge, and a bloaty pile of waste. But there are times when you can afford being wasteful. When the app is not running all the time, when you fire it up once a day (or even more rarely) for an hour at most, does memory use and performance even matter? When you have an app that talks with a device, and the bottleneck is the wire speed, native won't be faster either. There are times when #Electron is not the bottleneck.

There are a lot of things about Electron one rightfully dislikes. If it connects to the internet, you are pretty much fucked. But you can do *so* much more with Electron than wrapping web apps, where this does not apply.

Ugh. Another blog post coming: in defense of #Electron. Because while it is bad, sometimes it is still the most practical choice. A lot of the critique I read starts off on the wrong foot, and does not consider cases where their advocated frameworks, solutions, and whatnot are simply not viable. Most of them have this "Slack is bad, IRC is lighter, so Electron is shit" vibe. It's not all about Slack. Or IRC.

Had it for a while, as it has been part of a Humble Monthly (I think), but didn't like it on first try. Talked with a friend since, started playing, and enjoying it quite a bit. Playing a healer is challenging not because it is hard to play it, but because of stupid people. It's frustrating when a dungeon takes 30 minutes (instead of 15), because people stand in red and don't read chat.

While getting dressed I find myself pondering a video game where you are a shoulder dragon with shoulder dragon sized problems. Sure, the wizard whose shoulder you ride on has some complex world-in-peril narrative to deal with, and every now and then she makes you do some weird mission that can only be accomplished by a tiny dragon, but mostly you're concerned with lazing around the place while she does research, stealing cookies from the cabinet, chasing the local rats and birds, accumulating a shoulder dragon sized hoard of shiny things, and so on.

Couldn't agree more with the closing sentence: 「I never thought I’d find myself saying “I want to be like Luke Skywalker when I grow up” in my 30s, but they somehow made a Star Wars movie that pulled those feelings out of me again.」

Couldn't really put into words what I liked about Old Luke, this post does it perfectly.

A few days ago, I had a terrific epiphany while walking with the twins and brooding over something I was working with in the weeks before. Today, I sat down to summarize my ideas, and during the process, I had another revelation, that will - if it works out - make things so much better.

I feel like TLJ really tackled the issue of like "but I can convince them to stop being a nazi" very well

Like while you're trying to change them they're trying to change you and like, Kylo Ren didn't *want* to be saved, he would put that in scare quotes, so it was a lost cause. You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped

Seriously, it felt like a fucking war zone at dawn. Thick, heavy smoke, rockets firing in the distance, streetlamps blown out, dogs howling in fear, children crying, and the grim red rays of the sun shining on the horizon. It really felt apocalyptic.

It is ok to celebrate. It is ok to be loud. Go ahead, blow your horns as much as you want. But starting with the fireworks and rockets in the afternoon, and doing it till dawn makes you an asshole. It's dangerous, unhealthy, scary, inconsiderate, and honestly not all that fun with all these things considered.

I'd love if we could outlaw these fireworks, and consider their use a jailable offense, with strict enforcement.

On to the margin of new year's eve: there's this silly tradition of firing rockets, fireworks and all kinds of stuff around. Can we *please* stop doing that? Not only is it noisy, and scary as fuck for toddlers, dogs, and to some extent, even adults; but when I take down the trash at 4am, long hours after the neighbourhood stopped being idiots, I could literally cut the smoke. It wasn't fog. It was thick and heavy smoke, sitting on top of the whole area.

Soloing with a mainly-healer spec has its challenges. I can survive pretty much anything, as long as they don't one-shot me. Killing anything that hits harder is not easy though: I place down some damaging ability on the ground, and run over it like a scared little mouse, with the elite/boss/whatever on my tail. I heal it to death, pretty much.

I should fix that, I guess, but... healing dungeons (and I'm only level 43) is *fun* with this spec.

On the other hand, I mentioned to a friend that I briefly considered going back to play a little World of Warcraft, because I miss healing random idiots. He then promptly lured me into Elder Scrolls Online, which I like a lot more now than I liked WoW back when I played it. Templar healing is quite fun.

#mutt has a super-handy command that let's me flame idiots to crisp, but secretly, so that I don't start (or continue) flame wars online. Flame wars are always a waste of energy. Dick size competitions as well.